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Timothy R. Matthews

1826 - 1910 Person Name: Timothy Richard Matthews, 1826-1910 Topics: Christ's Sacrifice; Commitment; Confession of Sin; Freedom; God's Love to Us; Good Friday; Holy Week; Jesus Christ Priesthood and Intercession; Jesus Christ Redeemer; Personal Petition; Personal Response to Jesus; Saints Days and Holy Days St Mary Magdalene; Suffering Composer of "NORTH COATES" in Together in Song Timothy Richard Matthews MusB United Kingdom 1826-1910. Born at Colmworth, England, son of the Colmworth rector, he attended the Bedford and Gonville Schools and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1853 he became a private tutor to the family of Rev Lord Wriothesley Russell, a canon of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where he studied under organist, George Elvey, subsequently a lifelong friend. He married Margaret Mary Thompson, and they had 11 children: Norton, Mary, George, Cecil, Evelyn, Eleanor, Anne, Arthur, Wilfred, Stephen, and John. Matthews served as Curate and Curate-in-Charge of St Mary’s Church, Nottingham (1853-1869). While there, he founded the Nottingham Working Men’s Institute. He became Rector at North Coates, Lincolnshire (1869-1907). He retired in 1907 to live with his eldest son, Norton, at Tetney vicarage. He edited the “North Coates supplemental tune book” and “Village organist”. An author, arranger, and editor, he composed morning and evening services, chants, and responses, earning a reputation for simple but effective hymn tunes, writing 100+. On a request he wrote six tunes for a children’s hymnal in one day. He composed a Christmas carol and a few songs. His sons, Norton, and Arthur, were also known as hymn tune composers. He died at Tetney, Lincolnshire, England. John Perry

Patrick Appleford

1925 - 2018 Person Name: Patrick Robert Norman Appleford, 1925- Topics: Advent; Atonement; Christmas; Commandments; Commitment; Forgiveness; Freedom; Jesus Christ Lordship; Our Love to God; Personal Response to Jesus; Saints Days and Holy Days Mary, the Mother of th Lord Author of "Lord Jesus Christ " in Together in Song

Elizabeth McEwen Shields

1879 - 1962 Person Name: Elizabeth McE. Shields Topics: Personal Commitment Composer of "[Lord, help me live from day to day]" in Hymns of Grace Shields, Elizabeth McEwen. (Camden, South Carolina, September 22, 1879--May 5, 1962, Asheville, North Carolina). She was named for her grandmother, Elizabeth McEwen of South Carolina. Director, Children's Work of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education; Chair, children's section of what is now known as the National Council of Churches. Published many books for children, including Junior Hymns and Songs and Worship and Conduct Songs. --Tina Schneider, from information in the DNAH Archives, which includes correspondence from Elizabeth McEwen Shield's sister.

Ferdinand Hérold

1791 - 1833 Person Name: Louis J. F. Hérold Topics: Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Personal Holiness; Commitment; Installation Services; Jesus Christ Love For; Stewardship; Testimony and Witness Composer of "MESSIAH" in The United Methodist Hymnal Full name: Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold

Charles D. Meigs

Person Name: C. D. Meigs Topics: Personal Commitment Author of "Others" in Hymns of Grace

Stanley

1767 - 1822 Person Name: Samuel Stanley, 1767-1822 Topics: Commissioning Service; Commitment; Consecration; Gifts of the Holy Spirit; Holiness; Invocation; Jesus Christ Priesthood and Intercession; Ordination; Our Love to God; Our Sacrifice; Pentecost; Personal Response to Jesus; Prayer Composer of "WILTON " in Together in Song Samuel J. Stanley

J. H. Leslie

Topics: Personal Commitment Author of "Lead Me On" in Hymns of Grace

F. L. Snyder

Topics: Personal Commitment Author of "I Want to Love Him More" in Hymns of Grace

Darlene Zschech

b. 1965 Topics: Adoration and Praise; Celebration of Faith; Commitment; Creation; God's Love to Us; Jesus Christ Redeemer; Our Love to God; Personal Response to Jesus; Proclamation: Witness; Providence; Responses Author of "My Jesus, my Saviour" in Together in Song

S. F. Jones

1826 - 1895 Person Name: Samuel Flood Jones, 1826-95 Topics: Advent; Commitment; Decision for Christ; Our Love to God; Personal Response to Jesus; Pilgrimage; Saints Days and Holy Days Apostles; Saints Days and Holy Days St Andrew; Saints Days and Holy Days St Peter Composer of "ST CATHERINE" in Together in Song Jones, Samuel Flood, M.A., son of William Jones, for many years the Secretary of the Religious Tract Society, was born in London in 1826, and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford (B.A. 1851). Taking Holy Orders he was Minister of St. Matthew's, Spring Gardens, London, 1854-76; Lecturer of Bow, London, 1858-76; Minor Canon, Westminster Abbey, 1859; Precentor, 1869; Vicar of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, London, 1876; and Priest in Ordinary to the Queen, 1869. In 1860 he published Hymns of Prayer and Praise, Lond., Dalton & Lucy. This book contained 100 hymns, of which the following were by Mr. Jones:— 1. Here all is strife and war. The Present and the Future. 2. Jesus, my Advocate in heaven. Jesus the Advocate. This is adapted from "Star of the Sea." 3. Lord of light, this day our Guardian be. Morning. 4. This is the day of light, When first the silv'ry dawn. Sunday. Written long before 1860. Mr. Jones's most popular hymn is:— 5. Father of Life, confessing. Holy Matrimony. This was written about 1867, at the request of the late Dean Stanley for use at Marriages in Westminster Abbey. It has passed into several hymn-books. Mr. Jones's brother, William Henry Rich-Jones, M.A., Vicar of Bradford-on-Avon, and Canon of Salisbury (b. 1817, d. 1885), contributed :— 1. Haste, my soul, thy God adore. God the Sustainer. 2. Lord, Thy Solemn Passion past. Ascension. (In W. J. Blew's Collection, 1852-55, but not his) to his Hymns, &c, as above; and his wife Catherine Flood Jones (b. 1828) also contributed:— Pilgrim, bend thy footsteps on. Onward. to the same work. He died Feb. 26, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ====================== Jones, Samuel F., p. 606, i. We find that his hymn “Father of life, confessing," was published with Turle's music in Feb., 1866. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)